Do we need more affirmation that Corporate America rules our government and our legal system?

Those oily Texas politicians that pimp for dirty energy’s corporate
machine are challenging the EPA’s authority to enforce permits on
factories and electricity-generating plants that emit a lot of
greenhouse gases. Texas is the only state nationwide that has avoided
the Obama Administration’s new greenhouse gas regulations that came into
effect this week. The legal fight is just beginning and the EPA expects
to be in court in the coming weeks with a response.

Republicans took over both houses in the Texas state legislature with
whopping majorities in November. Meanwhile, Rick Perry is the
longest-serving governor in state history, is a darling of the right
wing Tea Party movement, and is in the pocket of Big Oil and Coal. The
Texas Tea Party is large and fanatical. Big Oil, Big Coal, Natural Gas
and lots of false solutions companies are running amok.

Big Oil and Big Coal own our political system. The politicians have appointed right wing judges to affirm corporate power.

So this begs a bigger question: Who is going to stand up to them?
It’s time to challenge corporate power in Texas in the courts, the
legislatures, and the streets. Lucy Parsons, Jim Hightower, Molly Ivins and many more have all been outspoken rabble-rousers from Texas. San Antonio, Austin, Houston and Dallas-Ft. Worth
all have built progressive, radical and clean energy consciousness.
Growing population demographics will be shifting the political spectrum —
which is why the GOP and their corporate benefactors are fighting so
hard to maintain the status quo.

Texas is not necessarily the right wing bastion every thinks it is,
and it definitely won’t be in the future, but urgency around greenhouse
gas emissions and environmental justice requires people, networks and
movements to arise now.